A native of New York City and a graduate of Pratt Art Institute and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Film Division, Larry Ruppel has had the privilege over the course of his career to collaborate with numerous film, television, and multimedia studios, applying his professional skills in both traditional 2D and 3D / CG techniques to character animation worldwide.
Larry has worked with Disney Feature Animation USA/France, Warner Brothers USA, Jellyfish Pictures London, and with LuxAnimation Studios Benelux, where he was Head of Character Animation for the CG feature film BOB & BOBETTE: LES DIABLES DU TEXAS, based on the classic Willy Vandersteen Belgian comic book series.
Lately, he has been associated with The Molecule NYC, where he supervised character animation for the Netflix series UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT,
and with the studios Psyop NYC, Goodbye Kansas Stockholm, and Framestore NYC/London.
Award-winning films Larry has worked on include the CG short SUBA, a SIGGRAPH selected film directed by British illustrator Alastair Graham, and the 2D documentary feature CHICAGO 10, directed by Brett Morgen and showcased at Sundance for an opening night premiere.
In addition, he has been a regular guest lecturer at NYU’s Advanced Animation Program in NYC, and also an invited speaker at the GDC Conference in Lyon, France, and at the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France.
Freelance Character Animation for various short film and commercial projects.
Currently Available for Character/VFX Animation Opportunities Worldwide.
Currently Available for Character/VFX Animation Opportunities Worldwide.
Supervised character animation (motion-capture and keyframe) of Zombies and other characters, both living and dead, for several episodes of "The Walking Dead: Last Mile", in association with Skybound Entertainment and Facebook Meta.
Animated the iconic characters of the CoComelon family, along with several cartoon animals for integration as interactive visual effects for the theatrical stage-show spectacular "CoComelon LIVE! JJ's Journey",
currently touring around the country and worldwide.
VFX Character Animation.
Animated legendary gods, dueling wizards, and flying Chinese dragons in 3D for a gargantuan amusement park dark ride in China.
Animated legendary gods, dueling wizards, and flying Chinese dragons in 3D for the gargantuan cinematic dark ride "Pearl Quest", nominated for a 2019 VES award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project.
Animating courageous mice and dancing llamas.
Creating photo-realistic VFX creature/character animation for feature films and TV series,
including "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt", "A Walk Among the Tombstones", "Happyish",
"Money Monster", "Elementary", and a Conan O'Brien VR project for ComicCon 2016.
Storyboard Artist and Character Animator for the upcoming PBS documentary
on the subject of Medieval Spain, titled "The Ornament of the World" (2019).
VFX Hero Character Animation for an upcoming epic short film for Hyundai.
Created photo-realistic VFX character animation for the
current feature film "A Walk Among The Tombstones" (2014).
Lead Supervising Character Animator for cinematic cut scenes
on Skylanders: Giants VG.
Character Animator for robots in live theatrical Blue Man stage performance
opening in Las Vegas - Fall 2012.
Created animation of Red Stag character for Jim Beam commercial "The Chase".
Character Animator and Previz for AT&T "Whole New World"
3D stereoscopic spot.
Character Animator for UPS, Fanta, and numerous commercials.
Assembled and hired the Animation Team /
Supervised all Character Animation for the CG Feature Film entitled
"Bob and Bobette: Les Diables du Texas" (French)
"Suske en Wiske: De Texas Rakkers" (Flemish)
"Luke and Lucy: The Texas Rangers" (English),
released in cinemas throughout Europe 2009 - 2011.
Participated in the Animated Features:Case Studies conference as Head of Animation
for "Bob & Bobette: The Texas Rangers".
Lectured on using Traditional Animation Principles in CG Character Animation
CG Character Animator for Spiderman 3 Campaign.
Supervising animator for "SUBA", a musical CG short film.
"SUBA" showed with "X-Men 3" at the Odeon Cinema
in London, was showcased at SIGGRAPH 2006,
and has won First Prize for Animation at the IMAF Festival
in London.
Traditional Character Animator on numerous projects,
most notably the documentary feature film "Chicago 10".
Character & VFX Animation for short films and Television special.